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2024 Presidential Election Megapost! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 minute ago) by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Edit 6:12 PM Pacific
Kentucky (8), Indiana (11), West Virginia (4), Florida (30), South Carolina (9), Tennessee (11), Alabama (9), Mississippi (6), Oklahoma (7), Arkansas (6), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Nebraska (5*), Wyoming (3), Louisiana (8), Texas (40), Ohio (17), Missouri (10) called for Trump.

Vermont (3), Connecticut (7), District of Columbia (3), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), Rhode Island (4), Delaware (3), Illinois (19), New Jersey (14), New York (28) for Harris.

2 counties in PA have extended voting hours due to voting machine problems. 9:30 PM in one, 10:00 PM in the other.

Multiple precincts in Georgia have extended hours due to bomb threats.

Edit 03:09 PM Pacific Harris wins Guam.

https://www.guampdn.com/news/guam-picks-harris-over-trump-in-non-binding-presidential-straw-poll/article_657b06b8-9b97-11ef-9896-1302c4e2ebe9.html

This thread is for the Presidential election, my plan is to start marking wins as soon as they are called, sorted by time zone.

Some states are going to take longer than others. Polls generally close at 8 PM local time, but they can't start counting early/mail in votes until after the polls close.

Wisconsin in particular has an interesting system where ballots are collected by MUNICIPALITY, not precinct, they have over 1,800 ballot counting locations and don't report until ALL 1,800 are in.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/22/wisconsin-voters-election-milwaukee-security-denier

Currently 232 EC votes from Blue States:

4+19+10+7+3+3+4+10+11 +4+14+28+4+3+13+54+12 +10+5+8+6

93 EC votes from Battleground States:

10+16+15+16+19+11+6

Which leaves 213 EC votes in Red States.

9+6+6+6+8+6+10+5+3+7 +3+40+30+11+8+17+9+11+4+3+4+4+3

270 to Win.

Online map here!

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific

Six states are closing at 7 PM Eastern (Georgia)

Puerto Rico -
United States Virgin Islands -
(D 7 EC Votes) Connecticut - Called For Harris
(D 3) Delaware - Called For Harris
(D 3) District of Columbia - Called For Harris
(R 30) Florida - Called For Trump
(BG 16) Georgia - Too Close to Call
(R 11) Indiana - Called for Trump
(R 8) Kentucky - Called for Trump
(D 4) Maine - Proportional
(D 10) Maryland - Called For Harris
(D 11) Massachusetts - Called For Harris
(BG 15) Michigan - Too Close to Call
(D 4) New Hampshire - Dixville Notch 3-3 tie vote.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html
(D 14) New Jersey - Called For Harris
(D 28) New York - Called For Harris
(BG 16) North Carolina - Too Early to Call
(R 17) Ohio - Called For Trump
(BG 19) Pennsylvania - Too Close to Call
(D 4) Rhode Island - Called For Harris
(R 9) South Carolina - Called For Trump
(R 11) Tennessee - Called For Trump
(D 3) Vermont - Called For Harris
(D 13) Virginia - Too Early to Call
(R 4) West Virginia - Called for Trump

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific
(R 9 EC Votes) Alabama - Called For Trump
(R 6) Arkansas - Called For Trump
(D 19) Illinois - Called For Harris
(R 6) Iowa -
(R 6) Kansas - Partly Central time
(R 8) Louisiana - Called For Trump
(D 10) Minnesota -
(R 6) Mississippi - Called For Trump
(R 10) Missouri - Called For Trump
(R 5) Nebraska - Called For Trump
(R 3) North Dakota - Called For Trump
(R 7) Oklahoma - Called For Trump
(R 3) South Dakota - Called For Trump
(R 40) Texas - Called For Trump
(BG 10) Wisconsin - Too Close to Call

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2 AM Eastern / 11 PM Pacific
(D - 4 EC votes) Hawaii -

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

6 AM Eastern / 3 AM Pacific:
Guam - Harris 49.46% vs. Trump 46.22%
Northern Mariana Islands - Not voting for President.

https://www.guampdn.com/news/guam-picks-harris-over-trump-in-non-binding-presidential-straw-poll/article_657b06b8-9b97-11ef-9896-1302c4e2ebe9.html

Source for NMI not voting for President.

https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/pacific-beat/104547042

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

1 - 2 AM Eastern / 10 - 11 PM Pacific
(R 3 EC Votes) Alaska -

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

11 PM Eastern / 8 PM Pacific
(D 54 EC Votes) California -
(D 12) Washington -

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

10 PM Eastern / 7 PM Pacific
(BG 11 EC Votes) Arizona - Too Early to Call
(D 10) Colorado - Too Early to Call
(R 4) Idaho - Partly Mountain Time
(R 4) Montana -
(BG 6) Nevada - Partly Mountain Time
(D 5) New Mexico -
(D 8) Oregon - Partly Mountain Time
(D 6) Utah -
(R 3) Wyoming - Called For Trump

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 points 29 minutes ago (2 children)

Remember; most mail ins are democrat. If it looks bad that's because we are not close to done.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 7 points 24 minutes ago (4 children)

I am on edge and dooming. If Trump wins it's all over. I'll likely literally die.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 minutes ago

Get your favourite show on netflix and watch that. No point in giving yourself mini heart attacks every time a county with 15 farmer’s ballots get counted.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 4 points 19 minutes ago

My despair is through the roof right now. What a mess.

I quite literally think I might have half a diazepam to get me through the next 6 hours or so.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago (1 children)

Go over to Reddit if you want to have a nervous breakdown. It's a complete shitshow over there at the moment.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

I don't get it. There haven't been any surprises yet.

Pretty much every state is following as expected. Its going to be super close and come down to PA, MI, and WI.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

We still got mid terms and we still got 2028. And if it comes to it we still got violence

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

How long before those are counted?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

NYT got me dooming. I think it’s time to pop a xanax and pretend everything is going to be okay while falling asleep.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 33 minutes ago (3 children)

Trump is up 3,000,000 in the popular vote in reported precincts. That trend will not hold. Harris will flip that and then some.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

Unfortunately popular votes or the lack thereof don’t decide the election for either side.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 minutes ago

I'm in Canada and anxiously following this dumb election ... mostly because I have to because whoever wins will affect my life too.

This is like watching my neighbours standing outside their burning house and having an argument about which fire department they should call ..... while the house fire grows in size. And the choices of fire departments is a regular fire department and other department is a bunch of guys in a half ton truck with buckets of water.

[–] spector@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 minutes ago

Well damn. This is as much a referendum on the character of America. What a searing indictment that it's even close at all.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

Updates from AP's decision desk:

Virginia:

As of about 9:30 p.m. EST, Harris isn’t doing as well as Biden in election returns at the same time during his race four years ago. Election officials in several counties in Virginia have also not yet reported results for votes cast by mail, which tend to favor Democrats. The race is too early to call.

North Carolina:

Trump is leading Harris by roughly 4 percentage points with more than half of the expected votes counted. Many of the state’s most populous counties haven’t reported significant numbers of votes cast in person on or before Election Day. In North Carolina, votes cast before Election Day made up 83% of total votes in 2020 and 58% in 2022.

[–] Ramenhunter84@lemmy.world 9 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (2 children)

Why da fk is CNN just totalling all the red states as if Donald Trump is winning right now? 😑😑

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 33 minutes ago

It excites conservative viewers and makes liberal viewers angry, and CNN only cares about people staying glued to their coverage.

It is the equivalent of rage bait.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 42 minutes ago

NBC is doing that too. They called a bunch of Trump States the second polls closed, but are pretending new York is still up in the air.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 22 minutes ago

Razer thin

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

Anyone got ten bucks right now on Trump declaring victory in the next 2 hours (from 6:21 pacific time) and saying everything after that is stolen?

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 18 minutes ago

Yeah I think that's the plan. IDK enough about states & timezones to say exactly when but surely we're approaching that time.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 31 minutes ago (3 children)

Friends, it looks like North Carolina (along with Georgia) is lost, this means Harris needs to win Pennsylvania (+ Winsconsin and Michigan) or it’s over.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 minutes ago

82,000,000 people voted early. It’s ridiculous that the race doesn’t start with those votes counted and reported.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 26 minutes ago

Well good night folks. I hope blue wall results trickle in over the night paint a more positive picture.

Because the picture uptill now, especially considering many ballots counted during the day were prioritised EV or vote by mail ballots, is looking pretty grim.